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Tenchi walked in from the day's work.
The wet dew from the evening grass left mist on his shoes and pants. Tenchi felt warmth; not from the outside weather, but from inside him. He felt something he hadn't in days: happiness.
He walked inside, a bit weary from the day's garden work and chores. he plopped himself down on the couch, and reminisced what had happened over the past few days. He was glad that he was out of his 'confustion' phase. He was now much more comfortable around Ryoko.
That reminded him.
He wanted to see Ryoko. Very badly. He stood up, and looked around.
"Ryoko?"
No answer.
He walked around, looking throughout the whole house.
"Ryoko? Where are you???"
He walked into her room and found nothing. Then, he figured out where she must be.
"Aha! My room!"
He ran to his chamber and opened the door. No Ryoko. But he saw a piece of paper on his pillow.
"What's this?"
It was a note:
"Dear Tenchi,
I just wanted you to know that I'm safe. I do not have much time to write, for I-"
That was it.
Tenchi sat down on his bed and set down the note to put his head in his hands.
"No..."
He thought he had figured it out. He thought that he could just go up to her, and confirm the truth. But no. Life wasn't that easy. Life was never that easy. He had just been so happy, and now he was so sad. Such small things, like a piece of paper with writing on it, can ruin his whole day. All his days, until he finds her.
"That's it," He said, "I'm going to find her. I have gone through too much with Ryoko to just let her go."
It was approaching dark.
He grabbed the note and put it in his pocket.
"I know what I must do."
He walked out of the house, late at night, after he made sure everyone was asleep. He ran down to Funaho the tree. There he found the cabinet.
He opened it. There it was, his sword. A new sword, one that Ryoko had given him for his birthday.
He put his hand to it, felt its power. There was something special about this sword, something he had never had before, a power he had never used.
"I never thought I would need you."
He grabbed the sheath out of the cabinet and shut it. He put on the sheath, and sheathed his sword.
He ran back to the house, and slowly tiptoed in. He grabbed a piece of paper and a pen; he had to write a note, so his family wouldn't think something bad happened to him. He jotted down a quick note, and left. He shut the door behind him, and said his farewell.
"Goodbye, house."
"...Goodbye, Ayeka."
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Tenchi looked at the letter once he was at Funaho again.
"Where did she go...?"
He sat there for half an hour, trying to decypher where Ryoko could have gone.
Suddenly, there was a rustling in the bushes. it caught his attention.
"H...hello?"
He crawled closer to the noise, and drew his sword.
"Whoever you are, be prepared to fight!"
He saw large, dark eyes in the bush. Tenchi tensed.
It popped out of the shrubs. Ryo-ohki!
"Oh, hi, Ryo-ohki!"
He smiled and pet her. Then, he realized that Ryo-ohki might be his key to finding Ryoko. He sheathed his sword.
"Ryo-ohki, would you happen to know where Ryoko is?"
Ryo-ohki pointed her ears downward and hissed.
"It's alright, Ryo-ohki, it's over. So you know where she is? Could you take me there?"
Ryo-ohki lightened up and smiled.
"Meow!"
"Thanks!"
She ran, jumped, and formed into the space ship. She lowered and opened her door. Tenchi walked inside.
It was a plethera of controls, buttons, levers and switches! Tenchi had no idea how to do anything.
"Uh, Ryo-ohki," He stammered, "I know nothing about flying spaceships. Could you help me out here?"
"Meoooooooowwwwwwwww!"
The ship started to rumble violently, and Tenchi hung on to a seat so he wouldn't slip and fall.
Takeoff!
The ship lifted off the ground and soared into the sky. Tenchi found his way into a seat, and watched out the window as they soared into space.
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A red and a blue light glowed.
Tenchi had completely forgotten about Ayeka's two wooden, Jurian companions: Azaka and Kamidake.
"What is going on?"
"I don't know, Kamidake, why don't you check?"
"Ryo-ohki is blasting off! Follow her!"
The two floated out of their hole in the ground, towards Ryo-ohki.
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They had been flying for hours, Ryo-ohki going along the path that she had tracked to find Ryoko.
All of a sudden, she ship jolted.
"What the hell was that?!"
"MROOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!"
"Damn! I forgot about them!....... Ah, just let them in before they ruin the ship."
The door opened into the air draining and filling chamber, and the two guardians floated through the chambers until they reached the control room.
"Lord Tenchi! We had noticed the liftoff!"
"Yes, Azaka."
"We thought that there might be trouble...?"
"Yes, Kamidake."
There was a long silence.
"Look, I'm on a mission to find someone, and you will be no help."
Then, he remembered.
Ayeka had a connection with Azaka and Kamidake. She will soon sense that they're gone, and she will be forced to call upon them to take her to Tenchi. She would find out about the mission. And if she found out that he had gone looking for Ryoko, everything would be ruined.
"Look, you got to go, NOW!"
"But why, Lord Tenchi?"
"Just go!"
"We can not leave without a credible reason."
Tenchi slapped his head.
"This is going to be harder than I thought," He said to himself.
He couldn't tell Azaka and Kamidake about his mission to find Ryoko; they would definetely tell Ayeka, and the whole sequence would play out before him: Ayeka gets mad and orders them to take her to him, the mission would be spoiled, Ryoko would have no hope of being found. Just like that.
"You just have to go-"
"Wait," chimed Azaka, "I am getting a reading from Miss Ayeka... We must go."
"Shit," Tenchi thought, "Here it goes."
They exited the ship, and Tenchi sat back down at the controls.
"I don't want to hurt Ayeka's feelings; I love her. But I don't want Ryoko to remain lost. I just know Ayeka will make everything worse."
He made his final decision.
"Light speed, Ryo-ohki."
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He was cruising along, until He felt a large damaging of the side of the ship.
"Pirates!"
He had fallen out of his seat. He stood back up and sat back in his chair.
"Ryo-ohki! Attack!"
Ryo-ohki fired blasts of energy at the pirate ships. Clouds of them surrounded the two, Ryo-ohki firing and hitting with excellent aim.
She blasted a narrow clearing that they zipped through, a cloud of thousands of pirate ships following them. Ryo-ohki tried with all her effort to evade them.
Miles after miles had passed, and they still hadn't been able to get rid of the pirates.
"Row mow meorow meow!"
"Great! We're almost there!"
They closed in on a small, cold planet. They were just a few minutes away. All they needed to do is get rid of the pirates.
The little blue planet seemed to get closer and closer by the second.
The siren went on. Tenchi read a red alarm light: "ENTERING FOREIGN PLANET".
Before Tenchi could do anything, turbulence hit the ship like a cannonball hitting its target.
"We're entering the atmosphere!"
He could see the icy cliffs now- steep, jagged, icy cliffs. Cliffs that could pierce and kill......
"Whoa! Ryo-ohki! Slow down!"
Alarms rung in his ears. He turbulence was worse now. It knocked him down, and just when he pulled himself up again, it pulled his feet right out from under him.
They were nearing the planet's surface, with extreme heat and rattling of the ship being too much for Tenchi to bear. He weakly pulled himself up using the chair.
All of a sudden, the ship jolted. Tenchi was thrown across the room, and his head violently smashed up against the doorway.
All went black.
Tenchi opened his eyes, a throbbing pain in his head and his left arm. He looked out the window...
The ship was sinking!
Tenchi frantically scrambled out of the chambers, his injuries jabbing and aching more with every step.
He was in the last chamber before the outside, the air filling and draining chamber.
He opened the door, just to be pulled off of his feet by a wave of incoming water. He took a deep breath and swam out with all the strength he had left.
His lungs were bursting. He could see imaginary things, his brain quickly losing oxygen. Just when he thought he was going to drown, he felt land.
Tired, weary, in pain, sad, and distressed, he slowly pulled himself out of the water, on to dry land, and fell asleep.
A restless sleep.
Tenchi dreamt of Ryoko. He had never done so before, never even thought of it. But he missed her. He missed her and longed for her, longed for her words, and her touch, and her kiss.
He longed for her love.
A strange place. A strange, beautiful place.
He could see Ryoko sitting on a rock, looking over a sunset. Tenchi joined her, and sat beside her. He looked at the sunset, and then at her. He saw Ioki.
He saw Ioki in her, in her eyes, in her soul. He saw her change to ioki. He held Ioki close to himself, held her and embraced her and loved her.
He stared into her eyes, she stared into his. The scenery, the sunset, the love. It was all to perfect.
Their lips came close...
Awake.
He felt the depression again. He awoke to a raging snowstorm, Ryo-ohki curled up beside him, asleep. He didn't want to leave the dream; it felt too good, too warm.
It felt too real.
He pushed himself up, and awoke Ryo-ohki.
"I must keep going."
Wearing only jeans, a t-shirt, and regular shoes in a huge snowstorm, he was freezing cold. Him and Ryo-ohki wandered through the snow for hours, Ryo-ohki leading him the whole way.
Trailing on and on.
Mind-bendingly long.
Insanely long.
Tenchi wondered to himself how Ryoko got so far, so fast. It had taken him at least two days to get as far as he was, with almost no sleep; it took Ryoko only the few hours he had been out doing chores. Someone must have taken her, have kidnapped her.
They had been walking for about eight hours, the cold starting to get to Tenchi's head.
"Dammit, Ryo-ohki! We're never going to find her!"
He dropped to the ground and started slamming his fists in the snow.
"I'm such a fucking idiot! I'll never survive out here in this cold! Hell, I didn't even pack myself a jacket!!!!"
Ryo-ohki walked over to him slowly.
"Rrrrow?"
"No, Ryo-ohki. I'm not happy at all."
He crossed his arms and laid down in the snow and started to cry. Tears flowed out of his eyes and down his cheeks. They dropped off his chin and into the snow. He stopped for a minute, and the trail of excess left behind from the tears froze on his face. He wiped this off and looked upward at the sky.
The storm had practically stopped by the time he was done crying. He could see coulds....... the same cloud patterns as he had seen in his dreams.
Feeling a new hope in the coincidence, Tenchi stood up and glanced at Ryo-ohki, then in a different direction.
"Alright, let's go."
Tenchi walked in from the day's work.
The wet dew from the evening grass left mist on his shoes and pants. Tenchi felt warmth; not from the outside weather, but from inside him. He felt something he hadn't in days: happiness.
He walked inside, a bit weary from the day's garden work and chores. he plopped himself down on the couch, and reminisced what had happened over the past few days. He was glad that he was out of his 'confustion' phase. He was now much more comfortable around Ryoko.
That reminded him.
He wanted to see Ryoko. Very badly. He stood up, and looked around.
"Ryoko?"
No answer.
He walked around, looking throughout the whole house.
"Ryoko? Where are you???"
He walked into her room and found nothing. Then, he figured out where she must be.
"Aha! My room!"
He ran to his chamber and opened the door. No Ryoko. But he saw a piece of paper on his pillow.
"What's this?"
It was a note:
"Dear Tenchi,
I just wanted you to know that I'm safe. I do not have much time to write, for I-"
That was it.
Tenchi sat down on his bed and set down the note to put his head in his hands.
"No..."
He thought he had figured it out. He thought that he could just go up to her, and confirm the truth. But no. Life wasn't that easy. Life was never that easy. He had just been so happy, and now he was so sad. Such small things, like a piece of paper with writing on it, can ruin his whole day. All his days, until he finds her.
"That's it," He said, "I'm going to find her. I have gone through too much with Ryoko to just let her go."
It was approaching dark.
He grabbed the note and put it in his pocket.
"I know what I must do."
He walked out of the house, late at night, after he made sure everyone was asleep. He ran down to Funaho the tree. There he found the cabinet.
He opened it. There it was, his sword. A new sword, one that Ryoko had given him for his birthday.
He put his hand to it, felt its power. There was something special about this sword, something he had never had before, a power he had never used.
"I never thought I would need you."
He grabbed the sheath out of the cabinet and shut it. He put on the sheath, and sheathed his sword.
He ran back to the house, and slowly tiptoed in. He grabbed a piece of paper and a pen; he had to write a note, so his family wouldn't think something bad happened to him. He jotted down a quick note, and left. He shut the door behind him, and said his farewell.
"Goodbye, house."
"...Goodbye, Ayeka."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tenchi looked at the letter once he was at Funaho again.
"Where did she go...?"
He sat there for half an hour, trying to decypher where Ryoko could have gone.
Suddenly, there was a rustling in the bushes. it caught his attention.
"H...hello?"
He crawled closer to the noise, and drew his sword.
"Whoever you are, be prepared to fight!"
He saw large, dark eyes in the bush. Tenchi tensed.
It popped out of the shrubs. Ryo-ohki!
"Oh, hi, Ryo-ohki!"
He smiled and pet her. Then, he realized that Ryo-ohki might be his key to finding Ryoko. He sheathed his sword.
"Ryo-ohki, would you happen to know where Ryoko is?"
Ryo-ohki pointed her ears downward and hissed.
"It's alright, Ryo-ohki, it's over. So you know where she is? Could you take me there?"
Ryo-ohki lightened up and smiled.
"Meow!"
"Thanks!"
She ran, jumped, and formed into the space ship. She lowered and opened her door. Tenchi walked inside.
It was a plethera of controls, buttons, levers and switches! Tenchi had no idea how to do anything.
"Uh, Ryo-ohki," He stammered, "I know nothing about flying spaceships. Could you help me out here?"
"Meoooooooowwwwwwwww!"
The ship started to rumble violently, and Tenchi hung on to a seat so he wouldn't slip and fall.
Takeoff!
The ship lifted off the ground and soared into the sky. Tenchi found his way into a seat, and watched out the window as they soared into space.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A red and a blue light glowed.
Tenchi had completely forgotten about Ayeka's two wooden, Jurian companions: Azaka and Kamidake.
"What is going on?"
"I don't know, Kamidake, why don't you check?"
"Ryo-ohki is blasting off! Follow her!"
The two floated out of their hole in the ground, towards Ryo-ohki.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They had been flying for hours, Ryo-ohki going along the path that she had tracked to find Ryoko.
All of a sudden, she ship jolted.
"What the hell was that?!"
"MROOOOOOOOOOWWWWW!!!!"
"Damn! I forgot about them!....... Ah, just let them in before they ruin the ship."
The door opened into the air draining and filling chamber, and the two guardians floated through the chambers until they reached the control room.
"Lord Tenchi! We had noticed the liftoff!"
"Yes, Azaka."
"We thought that there might be trouble...?"
"Yes, Kamidake."
There was a long silence.
"Look, I'm on a mission to find someone, and you will be no help."
Then, he remembered.
Ayeka had a connection with Azaka and Kamidake. She will soon sense that they're gone, and she will be forced to call upon them to take her to Tenchi. She would find out about the mission. And if she found out that he had gone looking for Ryoko, everything would be ruined.
"Look, you got to go, NOW!"
"But why, Lord Tenchi?"
"Just go!"
"We can not leave without a credible reason."
Tenchi slapped his head.
"This is going to be harder than I thought," He said to himself.
He couldn't tell Azaka and Kamidake about his mission to find Ryoko; they would definetely tell Ayeka, and the whole sequence would play out before him: Ayeka gets mad and orders them to take her to him, the mission would be spoiled, Ryoko would have no hope of being found. Just like that.
"You just have to go-"
"Wait," chimed Azaka, "I am getting a reading from Miss Ayeka... We must go."
"Shit," Tenchi thought, "Here it goes."
They exited the ship, and Tenchi sat back down at the controls.
"I don't want to hurt Ayeka's feelings; I love her. But I don't want Ryoko to remain lost. I just know Ayeka will make everything worse."
He made his final decision.
"Light speed, Ryo-ohki."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
He was cruising along, until He felt a large damaging of the side of the ship.
"Pirates!"
He had fallen out of his seat. He stood back up and sat back in his chair.
"Ryo-ohki! Attack!"
Ryo-ohki fired blasts of energy at the pirate ships. Clouds of them surrounded the two, Ryo-ohki firing and hitting with excellent aim.
She blasted a narrow clearing that they zipped through, a cloud of thousands of pirate ships following them. Ryo-ohki tried with all her effort to evade them.
Miles after miles had passed, and they still hadn't been able to get rid of the pirates.
"Row mow meorow meow!"
"Great! We're almost there!"
They closed in on a small, cold planet. They were just a few minutes away. All they needed to do is get rid of the pirates.
The little blue planet seemed to get closer and closer by the second.
The siren went on. Tenchi read a red alarm light: "ENTERING FOREIGN PLANET".
Before Tenchi could do anything, turbulence hit the ship like a cannonball hitting its target.
"We're entering the atmosphere!"
He could see the icy cliffs now- steep, jagged, icy cliffs. Cliffs that could pierce and kill......
"Whoa! Ryo-ohki! Slow down!"
Alarms rung in his ears. He turbulence was worse now. It knocked him down, and just when he pulled himself up again, it pulled his feet right out from under him.
They were nearing the planet's surface, with extreme heat and rattling of the ship being too much for Tenchi to bear. He weakly pulled himself up using the chair.
All of a sudden, the ship jolted. Tenchi was thrown across the room, and his head violently smashed up against the doorway.
All went black.
Tenchi opened his eyes, a throbbing pain in his head and his left arm. He looked out the window...
The ship was sinking!
Tenchi frantically scrambled out of the chambers, his injuries jabbing and aching more with every step.
He was in the last chamber before the outside, the air filling and draining chamber.
He opened the door, just to be pulled off of his feet by a wave of incoming water. He took a deep breath and swam out with all the strength he had left.
His lungs were bursting. He could see imaginary things, his brain quickly losing oxygen. Just when he thought he was going to drown, he felt land.
Tired, weary, in pain, sad, and distressed, he slowly pulled himself out of the water, on to dry land, and fell asleep.
A restless sleep.
Tenchi dreamt of Ryoko. He had never done so before, never even thought of it. But he missed her. He missed her and longed for her, longed for her words, and her touch, and her kiss.
He longed for her love.
A strange place. A strange, beautiful place.
He could see Ryoko sitting on a rock, looking over a sunset. Tenchi joined her, and sat beside her. He looked at the sunset, and then at her. He saw Ioki.
He saw Ioki in her, in her eyes, in her soul. He saw her change to ioki. He held Ioki close to himself, held her and embraced her and loved her.
He stared into her eyes, she stared into his. The scenery, the sunset, the love. It was all to perfect.
Their lips came close...
Awake.
He felt the depression again. He awoke to a raging snowstorm, Ryo-ohki curled up beside him, asleep. He didn't want to leave the dream; it felt too good, too warm.
It felt too real.
He pushed himself up, and awoke Ryo-ohki.
"I must keep going."
Wearing only jeans, a t-shirt, and regular shoes in a huge snowstorm, he was freezing cold. Him and Ryo-ohki wandered through the snow for hours, Ryo-ohki leading him the whole way.
Trailing on and on.
Mind-bendingly long.
Insanely long.
Tenchi wondered to himself how Ryoko got so far, so fast. It had taken him at least two days to get as far as he was, with almost no sleep; it took Ryoko only the few hours he had been out doing chores. Someone must have taken her, have kidnapped her.
They had been walking for about eight hours, the cold starting to get to Tenchi's head.
"Dammit, Ryo-ohki! We're never going to find her!"
He dropped to the ground and started slamming his fists in the snow.
"I'm such a fucking idiot! I'll never survive out here in this cold! Hell, I didn't even pack myself a jacket!!!!"
Ryo-ohki walked over to him slowly.
"Rrrrow?"
"No, Ryo-ohki. I'm not happy at all."
He crossed his arms and laid down in the snow and started to cry. Tears flowed out of his eyes and down his cheeks. They dropped off his chin and into the snow. He stopped for a minute, and the trail of excess left behind from the tears froze on his face. He wiped this off and looked upward at the sky.
The storm had practically stopped by the time he was done crying. He could see coulds....... the same cloud patterns as he had seen in his dreams.
Feeling a new hope in the coincidence, Tenchi stood up and glanced at Ryo-ohki, then in a different direction.
"Alright, let's go."